Coffee Drop Cookies Recipe

Here's another cookie recipe for your Christmas exchanges.  All those addicted to Starbucks, Pete's, et al will love these coffee drop cookies.  And note the optional variation in flour, using soy or lima bean flour.

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Coffee Drop Cookies
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon cloves
3/4 cup cold coffee
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped raisins
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups flour

Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg. Mix thoroughly. Sift flour, measure, and sift with baking soda, salt, baking powder, and spices. Add alternately with coffee to first mixture. Add raisins, nuts, and flavoring. Mix thoroughly. Add additional flour if necessary to make a drop cookie dough. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto well-oiled baking sheet. Bake in moderate oven (400 F.) about 15 minutes. 36 servings. If desired, 1 cup soy or lima bean flour may be substituted for 1 cup flour. Mrs. C. E. Tucker, Centerville, Iowa.

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